Tammy has represented numerous clients in the consumer financial services
industry, including consumer financial class action litigation arising out of
the foreclosure crisis. Her experience includes defending class action and
individual claims related to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Fair
Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, various state
consumer fraud and unfair business practices statutes, and counseling clients on
compliance with applicable federal and state statutes and regulations.

She also has experience in insurer liquidation proceedings, insurance
coverage and defense, director and officer liability, auditor liability, and
bankruptcy preference actions.

Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Tammy was a staff attorney in the Office of
the Special Deputy Receiver for the State of Illinois.

Experience

Representation of a national bank in a series of putative class actions relating to the mortgage foreclosure crisis.

Representation of debt collection companies in FDCPA class actions.

Representation of companies in class action and individual cases brought under the TCPA arising from telephone or faxing practices.

Defense of domestic ocean shipping company in antitrust class action alleging price-fixing and bid rigging of ocean shipping rates between the United
States mainland and Puerto Rico, including oversight and management of class-wide settlement. In Re: Puerto Rican Cabotage Antitrust Litigation, MDL 1960 (U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico).

Defense of domestic ocean shipping company in antitrust putative class action alleging price-fixing and bid rigging of ocean shipping rates between the
United States mainland and Hawaii and Guam. Obtained dismissal of claims based upon the filed rate doctrine, which was affirmed by the Ninth Circuit of the
U.S. Court of Appeals. In Re: Hawaiian & Guamanian Cabotage Litigation, MDL 1972 (U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington).

Representation of Jo Tankers, Inc., a parcel tanker shipping company, in consolidated multi-district class action litigation and related arbitrations of
Sherman Act § 1 allegations in the ocean tanker shipping service industry. Along with a McGuireWoods team, she helped secure a May 2010 victory before the
U.S. Supreme Court in Stolt-Nielsen v. Animalfeeds Int'l, 130 S. Ct. 1758 (2010), which held that the respondents could not be compelled under the
Federal Arbitration Act to engage in class arbitration where the arbitration agreement was silent on the issue of class arbitration.

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